From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 13:38:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B165B16A417 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:38:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdlists@bsdunix.ch) Received: from conversation.bsdunix.ch (ns1.bsdunix.ch [82.220.1.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661A613C469 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:38:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsdlists@bsdunix.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost.bsdunix.ch [127.0.0.1]) by conversation.bsdunix.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448795DB2 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:21:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.bsdunix.ch Received: from conversation.bsdunix.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (conversation.bsdunix.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id kkBZooPceiwE for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:21:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bert.mlan.solnet.ch (bert.mlan.solnet.ch [212.101.1.83]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by conversation.bsdunix.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CA65DA8 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:21:10 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <47063A0E.5020204@bsdunix.ch> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:20:14 +0200 From: Thomas Vogt User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070920) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Which SCSI Raid card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:38:13 -0000 Hello I'm looking for a fully supported SCSI Raid Controller for FreeBSD (6.x and 7.x). Requirements are: 80Pin SCSI 320 Low Profile card Min. 1 Channel At least support for 6 SCSI disks At least 64mbit ram (128+ MB are preferred) PCI-X, PCI-E or PCI (64bit) 32 and 64bit OS support Cli tools for managing working on FreeBSD Raid 0,1,5 support Not EOL in 6 month Battery support would be nice too. Any ideas? In the past I was very happy with Adaptec 2100S but it's EOL. I don't like the new Adaptec 2120 and 2130 cards. Mainly because it's not possible to create a raid1 or raid5 later from a non raid system. On a 2100S you could later setup raid1 from a production one disk system by simple adding a second disk, enabling raid1 in the bios and set "copy from disc0 to disc1" without loosing any data. It looks 2120 and 2130 are acting more like 3ware IDE raid controller. The always need to initialize the disks first for creating an array and during this task all data are deleted on every disk in this array. Regards, Thomas